Album Review: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye

It appears Tom Petty ain’t one for mellowing. His often jaundiced eye still in evidence from the opener American Dream Plan B – full of Dylan-bordering-on-Burroughs-style bile against the status quo. It’s familiar, yet that bit older. This can manifest itself as the grumpy chugging of Forgotten Man, or the more reflective romance in Sins Of My Youth. There’s a couple of clunkers on a mostly solid album, but they’re offset with U Get Me High – classic Heartbreakers as Petty’s and Mike Campbell’s guitars vie, before Benmont Tench’s trademark organ kicks in to settle the argument.